Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] by this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We therefore conclude that an element important for neuronal-specific expression has been lost by this deletion and as a consequence that the transgene is more sensitive to position-effects . |
| 2 | There is mounting suspicion , too , that Britain 's market in cars , car parts and servicing has been poisoned by this system . |
| 3 | But social dumping is but one example of the way in which the European spirit has been abused by this government . |
| 4 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 5 | A large roadside car park has been made and from it a track has been worn to the saddle on the ridge ; the steep climb has been helped by this path formed since my first visit . |
| 6 | In Chapter ii we found that a good deal of social science has been informed by this view ; but it is nevertheless natural to wonder why individualism should be excluded from the group of disciplines that aim to provide us with a grasp of the social world . |
| 7 | ‘ We regret in respect of the national anthems our undertaking has been violated and breached and we apologise unconditionally to anyone who has been offended by this breach ’ . |
| 8 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 9 | At the same time there was an emphasis upon paternalism to enhance workers ' motivation and promote effective work performance which might otherwise have been impaired by this control strategy . |
| 10 | A rough estimate of the amount of water that could have been entrained by this fireball is , where R is the radius of the fireball when its pressure has dropped to the ambient value ( several kilometres for a 10-Mton nuclear blast ) , and the density of atmospheric water vapour ( several times ) . |
| 11 | He may already have been linked by this date with Earl Richard 's son , Gilbert , eighth Earl of Gloucester [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | But the Wills Act 1968 provides that if a will is already duly executed with two other qualified witnesses , the attestation of any person who would have been caught by this rule must be disregarded . |
| 13 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 14 | Most of these expensive incidents might have been avoided by this drill . |
| 15 | The European Convention on Human Rights has not been made part of our law by statute , so it does not in itself create rights enforceable in our courts ; but having been ratified by this country it is binding on us as a matter of international law . |
| 16 | Developments in the reform of children 's services do not appear to have been influenced by this body of knowledge to the same extent as the reforms of ‘ adult services ’ . |
| 17 | Of all of the First Spiritualists , he was the only one who seemed , in some way , to have been affected by this business with my dad . |
| 18 | The only occasion upon which they appear to have been considered by this court was in Reg. v. McNiff [ 1986 ] Crim.L.R. 57 , in respect of which we have been helpfully provided with a transcript of the judgment . |
| 19 | 6.6 Insofar as this Agreement is less restrictive or onerous on the recipient Party in respect of the disclosure or use of any particular information than any undertaking given by the recipient Party prior to the execution of this Agreement in respect of the same information , such information shall to such extent be deemed to have been superseded by this Agreement . |
| 20 | It had been realised by this time that , even if polythene did not fit into the then accepted mould for plastics , which tended to be glassy substances like polystyrene and Perspex , it might still be useful . |
| 21 | Jackie Stewart also announced that the record sum of £200,000 had been raised by this year 's Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge . |
| 22 | ‘ We were contacted last Friday by a woman who had been asked by this man to make a donation to War on Want . |
| 23 | In fact these lectures offered an elegant and lucid exposition of educational theories and assumptions ( he had been exercised by this topic since the early forties ) and although he failed to arrive at any conclusions he suggested that none could in any case be reached . |
| 24 | The birch forests of Siberia , so upright , so elegant in autumn , had been broken by this winter campaign . |
| 25 | A course of ampicillin and metronidazole had been taken by this subject within four weeks of endoscopy . |
| 26 | Trade union representatives saw themselves as being accountable either to their respective trade union or to the regional TUC ( the nominating body ) , although virtually no employers ' representatives saw themselves as being accountable to regional or national CBI and many were unaware they had been nominated by this body . |
| 27 | Since the mid-1980s when the satanic child abuse scare first came to Britain , it seems that many workers within Social Services in particular have been influenced by this thinking . |
| 28 | Three adults who have been prepared by this group will be received into the Church at the Easter Vigil . |
| 29 | Most of us listened carefully to those hon. Members whose constituencies have been affected by this hooliganism — the hon. Members for Tyne Bridge ( Mr. Clelland ) , for Wansbeck ( Mr. Thompson ) and for Hartlepool ( Mr. Leadbitter ) . |
| 30 | Strong feelings have been generated by this experiment and report summarizes in paragraph three , four and three , the main group in which they fall . |